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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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He that is purified by love is pure and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
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Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.
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If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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